Mumbai BJP felicitates driver who took passenger to police for talking about anti-CAA protests
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Feb 8 (ANI): Mumbai BJP President Mangal Prabhat Lodha on Saturday conferred 'Alert Citizen Award' to the cab driver who a drove a passenger to the police station after overhearing the latter's conversation about anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protest.
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Feb 08, 2020 14:58 IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Feb 8 (ANI): Mumbai BJP President Mangal Prabhat Lodha on Saturday conferred 'Alert Citizen Award' to the cab driver who drove a passenger to the police station after overhearing the latter's conversation about anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protest.
The incident had occured earlier this week, when Uber cab driver, Rohit Singh, took his passenger, 23-year-old activist Bappaditya Sarkar to a police station in the city.
The police recorded the statements of the two but did not find anything suspicious and therefore let them go.
Sarkar, a resident of Rajasthan's Jaipur, was visiting a friend in Kurla area. Police questioned him for almost two hours.
The cab driver told the passenger that he would be taking a detour for withdrawing money from an ATM. Instead, he took Sarkar to Santacruz Police Station.
According to police, the driver told them that the passenger was anti-national and was talking about dividing the country and could turn out to be a danger for society.
After a thread on the incident went viral on social media platform Twitter, the Mumbai Police and Uber India took cognizance of the matter. (ANI)
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